The magazines presented here are based on
light alloy magazines.For
steel magazines, increase weight by 2%; for plastic or synthetic magazines;
decrease weight by 8 percent.

2.7mm Kolibri

Notes:This round was the smallest commercially-manufactured centerfire round
ever made.It was used in the
Kolibri pistol until 1914, when it was replaced by the 3mm Kolibri round.It is an obsolete round, and a collector’s item that in real life would
fetch thousands of times the game price shown here.It was designed for ladies’ self defense, but the wounds it causes are
equally tiny, and it has no real practical value other than target practice.Virtually any 2.7mm Kolibri round today would be handloaded.

Nominal Size:
2.7x9mm

Actual Size:
2.72x9.4mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.04 per
box of 100; Price: $20 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.0004 kg

5-round box: 0.004 kg

3mm Kolibri

Notes: This
round, build for a ladies’ defense pistol at the turn of the 20th
century, is a tiny, low-power round that often does little more than annoying
damage.The case is generally so
thin that it is impractical to reload them, and the round typically uses an
unjacketed lead bullet.These items
are now a collectors’ item.

Nominal Size:
3x8mm

Actual Size:
3.05x8.13mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:0.06 kg per box of 100; Price $20 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.0005 kg

5-round box: 0.06 kg

4.6mm Radway

Originally designed for use in
Heckler & Koch’s MP-7 PDW, the 4.6mm Radway round is now also going to be
chambered in a new Heckler in Koch pistol, the UCP.The 4.6mm Radway was developed by Heckler & Koch’s partners at BAE’s
Radway Green facilities, based on the 1960s 4.6x36mm
löffelspitz round developed for the
abortive HK-36 assault rifle.The
4.6mm Radway round has high velocity and decent range, but the effectiveness and
knockdown power of such a tiny round (the standard round weight is only 2.6
grams) is debatable, even though it has been proven that the 4.6mm Radway round
yaws violently upon striking flesh.
The standard ball round uses a jacketed lead-antimony alloy bullet, and this is
what is referred to for the price below.The German Army does not typically use the standard ball round, using the
DM-11 Penetrator instead.The DM-11
Penetrator uses a brass-jacketed steel-cored round that is loaded with a bit
more propellant and is a bit more aerodynamically efficient in shape.This results in better penetration and range.German Police often use the Action Law Enforcement round, which is
basically the same as the standard ball round but has the harder brass jacket of
the DM-11 round.The DM-11
Penetrator has a one-step increase in penetration; The ALE has sort of a
“half-step increase (split the difference). The DM-11 round costs 3 times the
standard ball ammo cost; the Action Law Enforcement costs twice the standard
ball ammunition price.

Twilight 2000 Notes: The 4.6mm
Radway round does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Other Names:
4.6mm HK PDW

Nominal Size:
4.6x30mm

Actual Size:
4.5x30.07mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 8 kg per
case of 1000; Price: $380 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.007 kg

20-round box: 0.23 kg

40-round box: 0.44 kg

5.45mm Russian Short

Notes:
Originally developed for the PSM pistol, this cartridge is considered a poor
round by most Western experts.It
is, however, more effective against body armor than its size and energy would
otherwise indicate.The bullet is
jacketed, and has a steel front half and lead rear half.

Other Names:
5.45mm Soviet Pistol, 5.45mm Short Russian

Nominal Size:
5.45x18mm

Actual Size:
5.33x17.78mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight:5 kg per case of 1000; Price $80 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.004 kg

8-round box: 0.06 kg

24-round box: 0.16 kg

5.5mm Velo Dog

Notes: This
round was introduced in 1894, designed to be fired from the French Velo Dog
revolver.The revolver passed out
of favor quickly, but a number of Belgian and German revolvers also chambered
the round over the years, and it was manufactured by several countries up to
1940.Today, only Fiocchi of Italy
makes the 5.5mm Velo Dog round.It
is a round that has little more power than a .22 Long Rifle round; the 5.5mm
Velo Dog was designed to do little more than allow bicyclists to scare off
aggressive dogs (hence the name).

Other Names:
5.75mm Velo Dog

Nominal Size:
5.5x29mm

Actual Size:
5.72x28.45mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.68 kg
per box of 100; Price: $22 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.005 kg

5.56mm Pindad

Notes: The
5.56mm Pindad round is essentially a shortened 5.56mm NATO round – both in case
and bullet.The result is a round
that produces decent damage and penetration superior to most pistol rounds, it a
manner to other short PDW rounds like the 5.7mm FN and 4.6mm Radway.The 5.56mm Pindad and the pistol (the Pindad PS-01 Serbu) was first shown
in prototype form at the 2008 Indo-Defence Expo & Forum, and I have not been
able to find out whether it has entered production as of yet.Penetration is exceptional, even in subsonic form, as is range.

A subsonic
version of this round exists; triple all prices for this round.

Nominal Size:
5.56x21mm

Actual Size:
5.69x20.86mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 0.58 kg
per box of 100; Price: $21 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.005 kg

12-round box: 0.11 kg

18-round box: 0.16 kg

5.7mm FN

Notes: This
round was developed in the late 1980s by FN for their new P90 Personal Defense
Weapon (PDW).It was later
chambered in their Five-seveN pistol.It was designed to replace the 9mm Parabellum round in certain
applications (such as for rear area troops), but no country has as yet adopted
either weapon that fires the round in large numbers.(In fact, most Americans are most likely to see the P-90 PDW on the TV
show Stargate SG-1.)The bullet is very sharply pointed, and the case resembles that of the
.221 fireball.The bullet is very
light, but has high velocity, and is known for penetration.

A special armor
piercing version, the 5.7mm FN High-Velocity, is also available.Double all costs of ammunition for this round.A subsonic version of the 5.7mm FN round also exists; triple all prices
for this round.

Other Names:
5.7x28mm, 5.7x28mm FN, 5.7mm P90

Nominal Size:
5.7x28mm

Actual Size:
5.59x28.7mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 8.75 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $280 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.007 kg

20-round box: 0.23 kg

25-round box: 0.28 kg

50-round box: 0.45 kg

5.8mm Chinese Pistol

Notes: It is a matter
of debate whether this round was designed first as a submachinegun or pistol
round, but it does seem to have first appeared as a pistol round.It follows the recent trend towards small-caliber, lightweight rounds
designed for use in light pistols and PDWs.The 5.8x21mm round is, like those sorts of rounds, is short, necked, and
uses a lightweight bullet fired at high velocity to achieve results that such a
small round would not normally produce.Like other such rounds, the bullet is sharply-pointed and flies at a very
high velocity.

A steel-cored
armor-piercing version is also produced; double all costs of ammunition for this
round.A subsonic version also
exists; triple all costs for this round.

Other Names:
DAP92-5.8, QSZ-92-5.8

Nominal Size:
5.8x21mm

Actual Size:
5.74x21.26mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 6.05 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $220 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

20-round box: 0.18 kg

50-round helical: 0.43 kg

6x35mm KAC PDW

Notes: Designed
specifically for Knight Armaments’ PDW (based on their entry into the US SCAR
competition), the KAC PDW round is essentially a blown-out .221 Fireball round
with a modified, shorter version of the .243 Winchester round.Though not necessarily meant for long-range shooting, the KAC PDW round
does still have decent range, and in close-quarters battle, is quite
hard-hitting and penetrative compared to the 5.56mm NATO round.The standard KAC PDW round can also be effectively silenced with the
proper silencer.

KAC has plans to
produce a true subsonic version of the KAC PDW round; triple all costs for this
round.Other plans include a
steel-cored AP round (double all costs), and a frangible version (double all
costs).

Twilight 2000
Notes: This round does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Other Names: 6mm
KAC PDW

Nominal Size:
6x35mm

Actual Size:
6.17x35.56mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 11.66 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $420 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

20-round box: 0.35 kg

30-round box: 0.51 kg

6.35mm Tula

Notes: The 6.3mm
Tula round was an attempt to produce a round for the TK TOZ pistol with more
power than the .25 ACP round.The
dimensions are close to the .25 ACP, but the 6.3mm Tula is a much hotter round,
with a larger and heavier bullet and a much greater propellant charge.The 6.3mm Tula round was made only for the TK TOZ pistol, and only tiny
lots are made these days.
Handloading is supposedly much more difficult than one might suppose.

Nominal Size:
6.35x16mm

Actual Size:
6.39x16.25mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.46 kg
per box of 100; Price: $17 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.004 kg

8-round box: 0.06 kg

6.5mm CBJ

Notes: Designed
specifically for the SAAB/Bofors CBJ-MS PDW, the 6.5mm CBJ round is a
bottle-necked round that is a 9mm-type case necked down to accept a 6.5mm
bullet.Unlike most rounds, the
primary loading of the 6.5mm CBJ is an armor piercing round.This consists of a polymer- saboted 4mm tungsten penetrator with a very
high velocity (higher than most assault rifle rounds) and excellent penetration.The 6.5mm CBJ round also comes in a spoon-nosed jacketed round, again
packaged as a saboted 4mm round.
Standard ball (upon which the prices below are based) is also available (which
is not saboted).

The
saboted-tungsten AP rounds as well as the spoon-nosed rounds cost double the
prices below.

Twilight 2000
Notes: 6.5mm CBJ ammunition is quite rare, but available in some places in the
Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
6.5x25mm

Actual Size:
6.51x25.2mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 0.92 kg
per box of 100; Price: $34 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

20-round box: 0.17 kg

30-round box: 0.25 kg

100-round drum: 0.84 kg

7mm Nambu

Notes: This
round was designed to be fired from only one weapon, the Japanese Small Nambu
(more commonly known as the Baby Nambu) pistol.It was never an official Japanese service round, nor was the pistol an
official sidearm, but it was popular with many high-ranking officers.After World War 2, the Baby Nambus and their ammunition were taken home
by US soldiers and Marines as war trophies, but the pistols are now scares and
their rounds even scarcer.
Virtually any 7mm Nambu round found today would be handloaded, but the gunsmith
would have to work almost from scratch.The 7mm Nambu round is not considered an effective self-defense round by
Western standards, and might not even be very good against vermin.

Nominal Size:
7x20mm

Actual Size:
7.11x19.81mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 0.99 kg
per box of 100; Price: $32 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

7-round box: 0.1 kg

7.5mm Norwegian Nagant

Notes: Designed
specifically for the m/1883 Nagant revolver that was used by officers until just
after World War 2, the 7.5mm Norwegian Nagant was also used by the Swedish
m/1887 Nagant copy of the m/1883.
Originally designed for use with blackpowder, the round was later loaded with
smokeless powder rounds designed by Norma of Sweden.The bullet is usually lubricated to a very slight degree.The case is short and very slightly tapered.The 7.5mm Norwegian Nagant round is obsolete, and is now in the realm of
handloaders, with the exception of small quantities of a cousin of these rounds,
the 7.5mm Swiss Army, which is made by Fiocchi, and can be fired from revolvers
designed for the 7.5mm Norwegian Nagant. Cases
can also be made by trimming .32-20 cases to the proper length.Since the round was designed for blackpowder, only a small amount of
smokeless powder is safe for use in the 7.5mm Norwegian Nagant.

Other Names:
7.5mm Nagant Revolver, 7.5mm Swedish Nagant

Nominal Size:
7.5x23mm

Actual Size:
8.26x22.61mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.07 kg
per box of 100; Price: $39 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

7.5mm Swiss Army

Notes: This
round was adopted by the Swiss Army for their revolvers as a blackpowder round
in 1882.It was soon converted to a
smokeless powder cartridge, and used by the Swiss Army until 1903.Surplus Swiss revolvers were sold on the US market in the 1960s, and a
few other weapons were also chambered for the cartridge, but weapons that fire
the 7.5mm Swiss Army round are relatively rare.

Other Names:
7.5mm Swiss Army Revolver, 7.5mm Norwegian Revolver

Nominal Size:
7.5x23mm

Actual Size:
8.05x22.61mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:1.01 per box of 100; Price: $36 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

7.62mm M-48

Notes:
Originally designed for use with the VZ-25 submachinegun, the M-48 round was
also used for the CZ-52 pistol instead.The dimensions of the M-48 are identical to the 7.62mm Tokarev, but the
propellant charge is greater, making it sort of a hotloaded 7.62mm Tokarev.The CZ-52 is one of the few pistols that are actually strong enough to
handle the M-48 round, but the actual use of this round with the CZ-52 is rare
since shooters tend to complain of the recoil and it does prematurely wear the
barrel, frame, and slide.

Other Names:
7.62 Pi

Nominal Size:
7.62x25mm

Actual Size:
7.8x26.64mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 16.67 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $275 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

8-round box: 0.19 kg

32-round box: 0.68 kg

7.62mm Nagant Revolver

Notes: This
round was designed specifically for use in the Russian 1895 Nagant revolver, and
later used in the Pieper revolver.
The round has great velocity, but this has as much to do with the revolver’s
design as with the round itself.
The bullet is light and thus stopping power is not what the velocity would seem
to indicate.

Other Names:
7.62mm Russian Nagant Revolver

Nominal Size:
7.62x38mm

Actual Size:
7.49x38.86mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.71 kg
per box of 100; Price: $55 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.014 kg

7.62mm Tokarev

Notes: This
cartridge was introduced along with the Tokarev TT-30 pistol in 1930.This cartridge is almost identical to the .30 Mauser round and most
weapons chambered for 7.62mm Tokarev will chamber and fire the .30 Mauser round
without difficulty, and vice versa.
The round has a flat trajectory and, when jacketed, has decent body armor
penetration when provided with an adequate-length barrel.Russian-made ammunition is typically steel-cased and not reloadable under
most circumstances.However, there
is some Western manufacture of the 7.62mm Tokarev round, and these are
reloadable.

A subsonic
variant of the 7.62mm Tokarev is made for use in silenced pistols.This ammunition has a reduced propellant charge.Multiply all prices by three for this ammunition.

Other Names:
7.62mm Russian Pistol, 7.62mm Russian

Nominal Size:
7.62x25mm

Actual Size:
7.8x26.64mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight:15.88 kg per case of 1000; Price:$250 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.013 kg

7-round box: 0.16 kg

8-round box: 0.18 kg

9-round box: 0.2 kg

10-round box: 0.22 kg

10-round clip: 0.13 kg

18-round box: 0.38 kg

20-round box: 0.42 kg

30-round box: 0.61 kg

32-round box: 0.65 kg

35-round box: 0.71 kg

36-round box: 0.73 kg

40-round box: 0.8 kg

71-round drum: 1.41 kg

7.62mm Type 64, Type 67 and Type 84

Notes: The
7.62mm Type 62 round was developed in early 1960s specifically to provide a
round that could be used in both the then-new Type 64 pistol and its silenced
counterpart.The Type 64 round is
essentially a .32 ACP round with a very few modifications.The .32 ACP round is semi-rimmed, but the Type 64 round is rimless.The propellant load was also loaded with only about 75% of the .32 ACP’s
propellant load, therefore ensuring that the Type 64 round would fire a subsonic
bullet.Accordingly, the Type 64
round, like many sub-loaded rounds, fires a heavier bullet than the standard .32
ACP bullet.

The Type 67 is a
further sub-loaded version of the Type 64, leading to a somewhat quieter weapon
when used in a silenced pistol or submachinegun.The bullet is slightly heavier, but range is degraded a bit. Noise is
still the same class as for the Type 64, but the GM should lean in the direction
of the shooter’s quietness in certain circumstances when it is used.

In the early
1980s, the Chinese developed a version of the Type 64 round designed
specifically for use by their version of Air Marshals (along with an updated
version of the Type 64 pistol) or for aircrews of large aircraft if their planes
get boarded on the ground, called the Type 84 round.The Type 84 is very similar to the Type 64, but uses a semi-jacketed
frangible bullet instead of the standard FMJ lead bullet of the Type 64 round.This round will not penetrate the skin of the typical airliner at ranges
of over 2 meters, and is unlikely to do so at shorter ranges.It retains the subsonic velocity of the Type 64 and Type 67, and is
therefore still useable in silenced weapons. Penetration of body armor is less
than that of the Type 64 or Type 67, but this is not measurable in
Twilight 2000 v2.2 terms. The Type 84
round costs double the prices listed below.

Other Names:
7.62x17mm, 7.65x17mm, 7.65mm Chinese

Nominal Size:
7.62x17mm

Actual Size:
7.85x17mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 7.26 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $380 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.007 kg

7-round box: 0.09 kg

9-round box: 0.1 kg

20-round box: 0.22 kg

30-round box: 0.32 kg

40-round box: 0.42 kg

7.63mm Mannlicher

Notes:
Originally designed for use in the Model 1900 Mannlicher military pistol (made
by Steyr in Austria-Hungary and in Spain), the semi-rimmed 7.63mm Mannlicher
round was originally designed to be fed by a stripper clip from the top of that
pistol and some other later, similar pistols.This stripper clip is proprietary, and is not removed from the pistol
until it is empty or the weapon is to be unloaded, as it helps guide the rounds
into the action of the pistols which use it.The 7.63mm Mannlicher round is barely more powerful than the .32 ACP
round, and not as useful, given that most weapons designed for it need that
proprietary stripper clip.

The 7.63mm
Mannlicher round and the pistols which fire it were common on the war surplus
market until the late 1950s; they are now mostly collector’s items, with
ammunition largely the province of handloaders.The 7.63mm Mannlicher round can actually be made by making some
modifications to .30 Mauser rounds; the bullet is essentially the same and the
case diameter is virtually identical, though the 7.63mm Mannlicher round is much
shorter and carries much less propellant.

Other Names:
7.65mm Mannlicher

Nominal Size:
7.63x21mm

Actual Size:
7.82x21.34mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.9 kg
per box of 100; Price: $33 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

6-round clip: 0.05 kg

8-round clip: 0.07 kg

10-round clip: 0.08 kg

7.63mm Mauser

Notes: Designed
by Hugo Borchardt and introduced in 1893, the 7.63mm Mauser round is perhaps
better known by the name under which it was introduced, the .30 Mauser.The 7.63mm was designed for the Borchardt automatic pistol, a predecessor
of the Luger, and later adopted as the first chambering for the Mauser c/96
pistol.The 7.63mm Mauser is known
for it’s long-ranged, flat trajectory, but unfortunately also known for a lack
of stopping power.Though still
made in small lots by Remington and Winchester until recently, the 7.63mm Mauser
is primarily made in Portugal by several firms, and exported worldwide by
Century International Arms.Further
development of this round by the Soviets in the late 1920s resulted in the
7.62mm Tokarev round, and most firearms that can fire the 7.63mm Mauser can fire
the 7.62mm Tokarev and vice versa.
Performance of the 7.63mm Mauser is in fact virtually identical to the 7.62mm
Tokarev round.

Other Names: .30
Mauser, .30 Borchardt

Nominal Size:
7.63x25mm

Actual Size:
7.82x24.54mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 12.98 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $240 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.012 kg

7-round box: 0.15 kg

8-round box: 0.17 kg

10-round Clip: 0.12 kg

7.65mm Longue

Notes: This
French military pistol cartridge was used from 1935 to 1950, when it was
replaced by the 9mm Parabellum.It
is still used to a small extent by the French Police.A large number of pistols chambering this cartridge have been sold on the
surplus market, and thus the demand for the 7.65mm Longue round lives on.The 7.65mm Longue is slightly more powerful than the .32 ACP round, but
it is still a bullet best suited to emergency self defense.As a submachinegun cartridge, it was basically a failure.

Other Names:
7.65mm MAS, 7.65mm French, .32 French Long

Nominal Size:
7.65x19.5mm

Actual Size:
7.85x19.81mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 9.63 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $150 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

8-round box: 0.11 kg

20-round box: 0.25 kg

32-round box: 0.39 kg

7.65mm Parabellum

Notes:This round was designed in 1900 for the then-new Luger pistol.It is still chambered primarily in old Lugers, though a variety of
pistols throughout the years have been chambered for 7.65mm Parabellum,
including some relatively new ones.
It is not in current military service, but it is a popular civilian round,
particularly in those countries where the use of “military” rounds by civilians
is prohibited.It is a small,
lightweight cartridge not known for stopping power or velocity, but it generally
doesn’t produce much recoil.

Other Names:
7.65mm Luger, .30 Luger

Nominal Size:
7.65x21mm

Actual Size:
7.82x19.05mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 11.38 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $180 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

8-round box: 0.13 kg

9-round box: 0.14 kg

12-round box: 0.19 kg

13-round box: 0.2 kg

14-round box: 0.21 kg

15-round box: 0.23 kg

16-round box: 0.24 kg

20-round box: 0.3 kg

32-round box: 0.47 kg

50-round box: 0.72 kg

8mm Gasser

Notes:This round was designed in 1898 as a new round for the Rast & Gasser
revolver.Thereafter, a number of
different European revolvers chambered the 8mm Gasser.It was popular in Europe for a time, but never manufactured in the US,
and rarely even sold there.It is
now considered a quite obsolete round and ammunition is very hard to find.Handloading is often the only way to get 8mm Gasser ammunition these
days; the round can be worked up from a .32 Smith & Wesson Long case. However,
Fiocchi makes 8mm Gasser rounds in limited quantities.

Other Names: 8mm
Rast & Gasser

Nominal Size:
8x26mm

Actual Size:
8.13x26.34mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.36 kg
per box of 100; Price: $44 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

8mm Lebel Revolver

Notes: This
round was designed for the 1892 French Ordinance revolver, and some other
manufacturers also made revolvers in this chambering.Some single-shot rifles were also chambered for the 8mm Lebel Revolver
cartridge.It’s an average handgun
in lethality and stopping power, but is considered obsolete these days, and no
longer manufactured.It can be
handloaded using .32-20 cases as a starting point, but the .32-20 itself is not
a common round..32 Smith & Wesson
ammunition can be fired out of a revolver that is chambered for 8mm Lebel, but
the case will bulge slightly when the charge goes off, and accuracy will be
poor.

Notes:This cartridge was used only by Japanese forces.It was introduced in 1904 for use in Japanese service pistols, and used
until the end of World War 2.After
that war, veterans of the Pacific Theater brought home a lot of Nambu pistols as
war trophies (especially US soldiers and Marines), but ammunition for those
pistols has been hard to find, since most stocks of that ammunition were
destroyed by occupying US troops after World War 2.Genuine Nambu cartridges are even more collector’s items than the pistols
are, and most of those who actually shoot their Nambu pistols do so with
handloaded rounds.In the 1980s, a
company in Illinois actually manufactured 8mm Nambu rounds for a short time, but
no company has done so in nearly two decades.The round’s light powder charge and light bullet limits its
effectiveness.

Nominal Size:
8x21mm

Actual Size:
8.13x21.85mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight:1.14kg per box of 100; Price $36 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

6-round box: 0.1 kg

8-round box: 0.13 kg

30-round box: 0.44 kg

8mm Roth-Steyr

Notes:This round was designed to be fired from the Roth-Steyr automatic pistol
and was never chambered in any other weapon.It was adopted in 1907, and was a popular war trophy to be brought home
by Allied troops after World War 2, but the ammunition is now manufactured only
by Fiocchi, in small amounts. It is a
decent combat round, more powerful than the .32 ACP but less so than the .380
ACP.

Nominal Size:
8x19mm

Actual Size:
8.36x18.8mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1 kg per
box of 100; Price: $32 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

10-round clip: 0.08 kg

9x21mm

Notes: This
round was specifically designed for use in countries where the civilian use of
“military” cartridges, such as 9mm Parabellum, is illegal.The 9x21mm round is basically a 9mm Parabellum round with the case
lengthened by 2 millimeters, but the round seated more deeply in the case, so
the overall dimensions of the round are identical to the 9mm Parabellum.The same magazines, breech faces, feed ramps, etc., that are used for the
9mm Parabellum can also be used for the 9x21mm round.Ballistically, they are virtually identical.

In most of the
European Union, the laws in certain countries that generated the 9x21mm round
are being changed.It is likely
that in the future, the conditions that created the 9x21mm round will disappear,
and possibly, the 9x21mm round with it.

Other Names: 9mm
IMI

Nominal Size:
9x21mm

Actual Size:
9.02x21.08mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 13.5 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $220 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

8-round box: 0.16 kg

10-round box: 0.19 kg

11-round box: 0.2 kg

12-round box: 0.22 kg

13-round box: 0.24 kg

14-round box: 0.25 kg

15-round box: 0.27 kg

16-round box: 0.29 kg

17-round box: 0.3 kg

18-round box: 0.32 kg

21-round box: 0.37 kg

26-round box: 0.45 kg

9mm Action Express

Notes: This
round was designed in 1988 by Action Arms Ltd.It is basically a .41 Action Express round necked down to take a 9mm
Parabellum bullet.It is designed
to allow 9mm Parabellum pistols and carbines to take a more powerful bullet with
a minimum of modifications, or allow .41 Action Express weapons to be taken down
to a smaller caliber.The 9mm
Action Express has been tested in a number of existing weapons and is offered
commercially in a few.It is not
being commercially manufactured at present, but is easily handloaded.

Other Names: 9mm
AE

Nominal Size:
9x22mm

Actual Size:
9.02x22mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 1.4 kg
per box of 100; Price: $44 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

10-round box: 0.2 kg

9mm Belgian Nagant

Notes: Based on
a Hungarian modification of a .380 ACP round, the 9mm Belgian Nagant uses a
larger, heavier round than the .380 ACP, but not nearly enough propellant to
avoid making the 9mm Belgian Nagant round a much weaker round than the .380 ACP
(or for that matter, most other 9mm rounds).The round is also rimmed, as it was designed for a revolver.The 9mm Belgian Nagant round was for a short time considered for use in
the Frommer Stop automatic pistol, but the results were unsatisfactory, and the
idea dropped quickly.The 9mm
Belgian Nagant is considered obsolete, but can be made using .357 Magnum or .38
Special brass.

Other Names: 9mm
Nagant, 9mm Frommer

Nominal Size:
9x22mm

Actual Size:
9.47x22.3mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.39 kg
per box of 100; Price: $50 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.013 kg

9mm Browning Long

Notes: This was
once a popular handgun cartridge in Europe, but was never used by US handgun
manufacturers.It was introduced in
1903 as one of the chamberings for the Browning M-1903 pistol, and thereafter
used in several other pistols.In
the US, it is sort of a curiosity round, never officially adopted by any
manufacturer, but sometimes used in weapons bought from Europe or seized as war
trophies.It is a decent combat
round, but easily surpassed by more modern rounds.It is basically considered obsolete, but can be handloaded, and is still
manufactured in some out-of-the-way areas.

Other Names:
9x20mmSR, 9mm Swedish m/07

Nominal Size:
9x20mm

Actual Size:
9.02x20.32mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.3 kg
per box of 100; Price: $42 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

7-round box: 0.13 kg

8-round box: 0.15 kg

9mm Dillon

Notes: Still
regarded as a wildcat round, the 9mm Dillon was designed Randy Shelley and Rob
Leatham for IPSC competition.Work
on the round was completed in 1988, but it was not until 1991, when Rob Leatham
began using it for IPSC competition, that the 9mm Dillon gained some sort of
semi-acceptance.Nonetheless, the
9mm Dillon remains a rare round, with the pistols firing it even rarer. The 9mm
Dillon is essentially a 10mm Colt case necked down to accept a 9mm bullet
modified from the .38 Super round.
The use of a 10mm case allows the round to produce very high pressures without
failing, and the reduced-size round essentially creates a sabot-like effect.

Other Names:
9x25mm Dillon

Nominal Size:
9x25mm

Actual Size:
9.07x25.15mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 1.43 kg per box of
100; Price: $52 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.013 kg

17-round box: 0.37 kg

9mm FAR

Notes: Like the
10mm FAR below, the 9mm FAR is a proprietary Tanfoglio round that was used by
only a few of their pistols, primarily in the Force series.Like the 10mm FAR, the 9mm FAR is basically a hotloaded version of a .45
ACP round, with the case necked down to take a 9mm Parabellum bullet.This gives the 9mm FAR excellent stopping power and good penetration,
though not equaling the heavier 10mm FAR. The round and the pistols are no
longer in production today, and those who have their pistols are generally
forced to go to handloaders or handload the rounds themselves.

Nominal Size:
9x23mm

Actual Size:
9.02x22.8mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 1.61 kg
per box of 100; Price: $58 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

16-round box: 0.39 kg

17-round box: 0.41 kg

9mm Glisenti

Notes: This
round was first developed for the Italian M-10 Glisenti pistol, and was
subsequently chambered in a variety of pistols and submachineguns, as it was the
official Italian military pistol cartridge in both World War 1 and World War 2.The size is almost identical to the 9mm Parabellum, but the powder load
is not anywhere near as heavy.9mm
Parabellum can often be loaded into a weapon designed for 9mm Glisenti, but this
should never be done, because the 9mm Parabellum cartridge is much more powerful
and will cause a chamber explosion.
The only manufacturer now making the 9mm Glisenti is Fiocchi, but it may be
easily handloaded starting with 9mm Parabellum cases.

Nominal Size:
9x19mm

Actual Size:
9.02x19.05mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.21 kg
per box of 100; Price: $38 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

7-round box: 0.12 kg

8-round box: 0.14 kg

9mm Largo

Notes: This
cartridge was designed in 1910 for the Danish Bergmann-Bayard pistol.The Spanish, however, were the largest users of this round, chambering
dozens of pistols and even some submachineguns for the cartridge.This round, however, has never been manufactured in the US, and pistols
chambered for the 9mm Largo round in the US and Canada are largely war trophies
or military surplus items.It is
basically a longer version of the .38 Automatic round.Handloaders will find that virtually any 9mm bullet will work in the 9mm
Largo case, but results may vary wildly, of course.The round has a good punch and decent penetration, but tends to produce a
lot of muzzle blast and barrel wear.

Notes: This
cartridge was adopted at the end of World War 2, and has become the standard
Russian pistol cartridge.It is
also used in several submachineguns.It may have been based on an experimental German cartridge, the 9mm
Ultra.It has more power than a
.380 ACP, but less than a 9mm Parabellum, and is considered underpowered.

In recent years
an attempt has been made to improve this cartridge, primarily for use in
submachineguns.This led to the 9mm
Makarov Hi-Impulse round.This
bullet is mildly pointed (as opposed to the rounded 9mm Makarov bullet), and the
round is loaded with more propellant.Triple all prices for this ammunition.

Other Names: 9mm
PM, 9x18mm Russian, 9mm Stechkin, 9mm Type 59

Nominal Size:
9x18mm

Actual Size:
9.22x18.03mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:12 kg per case of 1000; Price:$190 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

5-round box: 0.09 kg

6-round box: 0.11 kg

7-round box: 0.12 kg

8-round box: 0.14 kg

10-round box: 0.17 kg

12-round box: 0.2 kg

15-round box: 0.24 kg

18-round box: 0.28 kg

20-round box: 0.31 kg

22-round box: 0.34 kg

25-round box: 0.39 kg

27-round box: 0.42 kg

30-round box: 0.46 kg

32-round box: 0.49 kg

40-round box: 0.61 kg

67-round helical: 1.03 kg

9mm Mauser

Notes: This
round was developed as a alternate round for the Mauser pistol, specifically for
export to Africa and South America.
The round and the version of the Mauser that chambered it had a short life and
were discontinued by Mauser in 1914.It was revived in 1933 for the Swiss Neuhausen submachinegun, and later
for the Austrian Steyr-Solothurn.
Manufacture then resumed in several countries, most notably in Hungary, where it
was used until well after World War 2.However, it is not being manufactured now, and is a collector’s item.The 9mm Mauser round is very powerful, much more so than the 9mm
Parabellum, and approaching the power of the .38 Super round.Handloaders will discover that they may have to make the cases from
scratch or from .357 Magnum rounds, as they are very long cases.

Other Names: 9mm
Mauser Pistol

Nominal Size:
9x25mm

Actual Size:
9.02x24.92mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.58 kg
per box of 100; Price: $50 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.013 kg

20-round box: 0.42 kg

40-round box: 0.8 kg

9mm Parabellum

Notes: Besides
being the most common pistol cartridge in the world, the 9mm Parabellum is also
the most common submachinegun cartridge in the world.It was introduced in 1902 and has been adopted by practically every
non-Communist country in the world since then.Though it was quite popular from its inception worldwide, it was not
popular in the US until 1951, when the first domestically-built handguns were
chambered for it.Lately, however,
the 9mm Parabellum round has been criticized for its lack of stopping power;
many police departments are moving to .40 or 10mm-firing handguns, and the
militaries of several countries are moving back to the .45 ACP round for its
special operations forces.

A subsonic
version of this cartridge is made for use with silenced weapons.Triple all ammunition costs for this ammunition.An armor-piercing version of the 9mm Parabellum round also exists; double
all costs for this round.

Other Names: 9mm
Luger, 9x19mm, 9mm Patrone ‘08

Nominal Size:
9x19mm

Actual Size:
9.02x19.15mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:12.25 kg per case of 1000; Price $200 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

6-round box: 0.11 kg

7-round box: 0.13 kg

8-round box: 0.14 kg

8-round clip: 0.08 kg

9-round box: 0.16 kg

10-round box: 0.17 kg

10-round clip: 0.1 kg

11-round box: 0.19 kg

12-round box: 0.2 kg

13-round box: 0.21 kg

14-round box: 0.23 kg

15-round box: 0.25 kg

16-round box: 0.26 kg

17-round box: 0.28 kg

18-round box: 0.29 kg

19-round box: 0.3 kg

20-round box: 0.32 kg

22-round box: 0.35 kg

24-round box: 0.38 kg

25-round box: 0.4 kg

26-round box: 0.41 kg

28-round box: 0.44 kg

30-round box: 0.47 kg

32-round box, drum, or snail drum: 0.5 kg

33-round box: 0.52 kg

34-round box: 0.53 kg

35-round box: 0.55 kg

36-round box: 0.56 kg

36-round helical: 0.57 kg

40-round box or drum: 0.62 kg

50-round box or drum: 0.77 kg

50-round helical: 0.79 kg

60-round drum: 0.92 kg

64-round helical: 1 kg

71-round drum: 1.08 kg

100-round helical: 1.56 kg

100-round C-Mag: 1.52 kg

108-round drum: 1.64 kg

9mm SPS

Notes: Fired by
the Russian
SPS (formerly P-9 Gurza) pistol, Gepard SMG, and SP-2 SMG, the 9mm SPS round is
a long-cased, hotloaded round that has superior penetration, range, and stopping
power to most rounds in its class. It is a limited-use round that is not
produced in large numbers and is used primarily by military special operations
and special police units.The SPS
round is produced only by TSNIITOCHMASH in Russia.Three versions are available; the SP-11 standard ball round (less
common), and it’s armor-piercing counterpart, the SP-10 (considered the standard
load). The SP-9 uses a soft lead bullet designed to reduce collateral damage by
remaining primarily in the victim with little to no overpenetration; while
causing more soft tissue damage. The SP-10 costs double the standard price
below.

Other Names: 9mm
Gurza, 9mm Gyurza, 9x21mm Russian

Nominal Size:
9x21mm

Actual Size:
9x20.8mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.45 kg
per box of 100; Price: $53 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.013 kg

18-round box: 0.39 kg

20-round box: 0.43 kg

22-round box: 0.47 kg

30-round box: 0.63 kg

40-round box: 0.84 kg

9mm Steyr

Notes:Once the standard Austrian military pistol cartridge, the 9mm Steyr round
was designed for use in the Steyr M-1912 pistol.The 9mm Steyr round is very similar in size and appearance to the 9mm
Largo round, and can be easily confused.The 9mm Steyr is now making a slow comeback; however, the best source is
still handloading, though Fiocchi still manufactures the 9mm Steyr.It is a decent man-stopper, and a good combat pistol round.

Other Names: 9mm
Mannlicher

Nominal Size:
9x23mm

Actual Size:
9.02x22.96mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.46 kg per box of 100;
Price: $46 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.012 kg

7-round box: 0.15 kg

8-round box: 0.17 kg

8-round clip: 0.09 kg

11-round box: 0.22 kg

18-round box: 0.35 kg

32-round box: 0.6 kg

9mm Ultra

Notes: This
round was first introduced for the Walther PP Super pistol in 1972.It was designed specifically for the West German Police, and was not
available on the open market until 1975.Since then, many pistols have been chambered for 9mm Ultra, especially
after surplus West German Police pistols were sold after they discontinued the
use of the round.The 9mm Ultra
round was meant to allow the German Police to continue to carry the light, handy
pistols they favored yet have a more powerful cartridge, but this experiment was
not successful, as the 9mm Ultra really demands a heavier weapon or acceptance
of a lot of recoil and muzzle blast.(German Police eventually realized they might as well carry 9mm
Parabellum weapons.)The round is
slightly more effective than the .380 ACP, and slightly less effective than the
9mm Parabellum.Several European
manufacturers still make the 9mm Ultra.

Other Names: 9mm
Police, 9x18mm Police

Nominal Size:
9x18mm

Actual Size:
9.02x18.29mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 8.05 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $190 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

7-round box: 0.12 kg

8-round box: 0.13 kg

13-round box: 0.2 kg

9mm Winchester Magnum

Notes: The 9mm
Winchester Magnum appears to have been introduced in 1977, though a decade later
it was still an extremely rare round, and it was not listed in Winchester
catalogs until 1988.It was not
chambered in many weapons, most notably handguns like the Wildey, Coonan, and
AMT Automag III, and single shot weapons like certain Thompson/Center handguns.It looks similar to the 9mm Mauser round, but is much bigger, and more
powerful than even that round.
Unfortunately, factory rounds are difficult to find today, though handloads can
be made from .357 Magnum rounds.

Nominal Size:
9x29mm

Actual Size:
9.02x29.46mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.89 kg
per box of 100; Price: $60 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

7-round box: 0.19 kg

8-round box: 0.22 kg

10mm Colt

Notes: This
cartridge was developed in 1983 for the Bren-Ten pistol.The ammunition is literally chock-full of propellant and is almost like a
wildcat round.The 10mm Colt rivals
the power of the .41 Magnum, and even approaches the .357 Magnum under some
circumstances.Stopping power and
body armor penetration are excellent, but recoil with the round is typically
high.In addition, the long round
requires a handgun with a large grip, making things difficult for small hands.

Notes: A
proprietary Tanfoglio round, the 10mm FAR was chambered in very few pistols,
primarily in their Force line of pistols.It did not sell well and the pistols and ammunition are rare today.It’s sort of a .45 ACP round necked down to 10mm, though it is also more
hot-loaded than the .45 ACP and has superior stopping power and penetration.The round and the pistols are no longer in production today, and those
who have their pistols are generally forced to go to handloaders or handload the
rounds themselves.

Nominal Size:
10x23mm

Actual Size:
10.16x22.8mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 2.04 kg
per box of 100; Price: $74 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.019 kg

11-round box: 0.35 kg

10mm Magnum

Notes: The 10mm
Magnum round is essentially a 10mm Colt cartridge with a stretched case, more
propellant, and a somewhat heavier bullet (though of the same size as the 10mm
Colt’s bullet).The idea was
partially experimentation, but also partially to approximate .41 Magnum
performance in a cartridge suitable for automatic pistols.The 10mm Magnum round is in fact much more powerful than the 10mm Colt,
but it was also basically a limited-production niche round – the only production
weapon to fire it was a version of AMT’s Automag produced by IAI, the Automag
IV.Most other weapons to fire the
10mm Magnum are specially modified versions of existing pistols and revolvers,
done by tinkering gunsmiths.
Ammunition was once made in small lots by Sierra, but production ended over a
decade ago, and the 10mm Magnum is very much the realm of handloaders these
days.

Nominal Size:
10x32mm

Actual Size:
10.16x31.8mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.27 kg
per box of 100; Price: $82 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.021 kg

7-round box: 0.26 kg

10.4mm Italian Ordnance

Notes:
Originally developed for the Model 1874 service revolver, the 10.4mm Italian
Ordnance was also used in the Bodeo M-1889 (also known as the Glisenti
Revolver).It was found as a
blackpowder and a smokeless powder round.They were common war trophies in World Wars 1 and 2, along with the
ammunition for them, but today, the ammunition is available only in small
amounts from Fiocchi.

Notes: Primarily
produced for the Models 1879 and 1883 Reichsrevolver (and therefore often called
the 10.6 Reichsrevolver), this round was produced in that late 1800s period when
it was felt that handguns were best made to fire high-caliber, low-velocity
ammunition.This was because the
gunpowders available at the time generally had less power than today’s
ammunition, leading to the mistaken belief that it was best to make the
ammunition to fire larger calibers.
However, most firearms manufacturers had already begun to realize that such
large calibers were unnecessary, and the 10.6mm German Ordnance round was
essentially obsolete even as it was being introduced.The 10.6mm German Ordnance round is believed to be a development of the
.44 Russian round.

Notes: This
round was designed by Danish Army officer Jens Torring Schouboe specifically for
use in his Model 1907 pistol.He
wanted to design a more powerful version of his .32 ACP Model 1903 firing the
then-new .45 ACP round, but found that the Model 1903 did not scale up well to
handle the more powerful round, and therefore designed a custom round for it,
working with the designers at the German firm of DWM.The odd caliber of course doomed the design from the start, and only 50
Model 1907s were built.Today, the
11.35mm Schouboe Auto round is almost impossible to find; most such rounds today
are handloaded only by very skilled handloaders, and there are few Model 1907s
left to fire them.The bullets are
very light at 55 grains, since they have a wooden core with a thin steel jacket.This greatly limits penetration, but the bullet flies far and flat and
the pistol is quite accurate.
Furthermore, the round has only 10.4 grains of powder in it, a very light load
to match the light bullet and further decrease stress on the mechanism and
frame. Later iterations of this round used a thicker aluminum alloy jacket for
the bullet instead of steel, making the bullet heavier, but not really
increasing performance.

Other Names:
11.35mm Dansk Schouboe, 11.35mm DRS Schouboe

Nominal Size:
11.35x18mm

Actual Size:
11.35x18.14mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.4 kg
per box of 100; Price: $74 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.004 kg

6-round box: 0.12 kg

12.3mm UDAR

Notes: The
12.3mm UDAR round is similar in many respects to the 12.5mm DOG round, as both
revolvers were designed for the same purpose.The UDAR round is much longer than the DOG round, but slightly smaller in
caliber, and is also a necked-down 32-gauge brass shell round.Costs below are for a standard ball round.The low-recoil ball round costs 1.2 times normal, AP costs double, and
irritant gas triple.Other round
types are normal cost.

Twilight 2000
rounds: The UDAR round is very rare in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
12.3x50mm

Actual Size: N/A

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 6.35 kg
per box of 100; Price: $238 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.059 kg

12.5mm DOG

Notes: Designed
specifically for the Russian DOG-1 revolver, the 12.5mm DOG cartridge is a huge
round made by converting 32-gauge brass shotshells and necking them down to take
the 12.5mm round.Despite the large
side of the cartridges, the weight and size of the various rounds fired give the
12.5mm DOG a relatively short effective range.The 12.5mm DOG round comes in several different types; the costs below
are for a standard ball round.An
armor piercing round in this caliber costs double; an irritant gas round costs
triple.Other rounds are normal
cost.

Twilight 2000
Notes: This round does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
12.5x35mm

Actual Size: N/A

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 4.73 kg
per box of 100; Price: $172 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.043 kg

12.5mm Gnom

Notes: Used only
by the OTs-20 Gnom special purpose revolver, this is another round made from a
modified 32-gauge brass shotshell.
It is, however, longer and slightly more powerful than the 12.5mm DOG cartridge.
It fires some of the same sort of rounds
as the 12.5mm DOG, but with a bit more power (unfortunately, not necessarily
measurable in game terms, except for the buckshot round).Like the DOG, the heavy size and weight of the rounds and loads gives the
12.5mm Gnom cartridge a relatively short range, though the extra propellant in
the cartridge and the longer length of the barrel of the revolver that fires it
make it more effective.The costs
below are for a standard ball round or buckshot round; AP rounds cost twice as
much.

Twilight 2000
Notes: This is an extremely rare round in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
12.5x40mm

Actual Size: N/A

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 5.4 kg
per box of 100; Price: $196 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.049 kg

.25 ACP

Notes: This is
one of the primary cartridges of those infamous “Saturday Night Specials” that
criminals and punks like so much.
It was introduced in 1908 with the Colt Vest Automatic Pistol, and in Europe
with the FN-Browning Baby.Since
then, over a dozen companies have made pistols chambered for this round.The velocity of the .25 ACP is surprising, however, it also has
surprisingly little stopping power, due to the light weight of its bullet.Though it is good for little more than a backup or self-defense weapon,
it is better than nothing at all.

Notes: This
round was designed in 1999 specifically for the North American Arms (NAA)
Guardian series of pocket pistols.
The idea was simple: to put more power into the .25 ACP cartridge.JB Wood therefore used a .32 ACP case and necked it down to take the .25
ACP’s bullet.The result provides
somewhat more power than a .25 ACP, but subtracts slightly from the range in the
short barrels of the NAA Guardian.
(A longer barrel might yield better results.)The ammunition is made by Cor-Bon, but was not produced commercially
until 2002.

Twilight 2000
Notes: This cartridge is not available in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
6.35x17mm

Actual Size:
6.38x17.27mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 6.88 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $110 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

6-round box: 0.06 kg

.32 ACP

Notes: The .32
ACP round was introduced in 1899 for use in John Browning’s first successful
automatic pistol design.However,
the .32 ACP did not really come into its own until Colt license-produced another
John Browning design, the M-1903 Pocket Hammerless.Since then, it has become one of the most popular pistol cartridges ever
produced, though interest has steadily waned since the end of World War 2 in
favor of larger-caliber rounds.
Nonetheless, virtually every pistol company that now exists or has ever existed
has at some time or another produced a pistol chambered for .32 ACP, and some
revolvers have also been chambered for the round.In Europe, the .32 ACP round is still relatively popular; however, in the
US, the .32 ACP is usually relegated to backup or self-defense weapons..32 ACP is considered pretty much the minimum-power round for any serious
self-defense potential.Several
different loadings of the .32 ACP are made, and it is still a very common
factory-made cartridge worldwide; it is also easy to handload, as brass and
bullets are readily available.

A subsonic
version of the .32 ACP round is made for special applications (generally for use
in silenced weapons).Triple all
costs for this version of the .32 ACP.

Notes:This round was introduced in 1984 for use in H&R’s Model 504, 532, and
586 revolvers.It was soon followed
by a number of other companies, and became popular.Though H&R went out of business in the late 1980s (it returned in 2000,
but is not producing handguns), Federal produces factory loads for .32 H&R
Magnum.The .32 H&R Magnum is
basically longer version of the .32 Smith & Wesson Long.(Revolvers chambered for the .32 H&R Magnum will also accept .32 Smith &
Wesson and .32 Smith & Wesson Long.)It is a decently-powered round, more powerful than the .38 Special round.

Other Names: .32
Harrington & Richardson Magnum

Nominal Size:
7.9x27mm

Actual Size:
7.92x27.43mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:13.5 kg per case of 1000; Price: $220

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

4-round box: 0.09 kg

.32 Long Colt

Notes: This is
simply a longer version of the .32 Short Colt round, developed at the same time,
and using the same bullet.The
notes are basically the same as the .32 Short Colt, though it is a little more
effective.Chilean and Indian
police still use revolvers that fire this round.

Other Names:
.320 Revolver

Nominal Size:
8x23mm

Actual Size:
7.95x23.37mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 11.63
per case of 1000; Price: $190 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

.32 NAA

Notes: Similar
in concept to the .25 NAA round, the .32 NAA is made by necking down a .380 ACP
case to accept a .32 ACP bullet.It
was made specifically for the NAA Guardian and has not as yet been chambered in
any other weapons.The ammunition
is made by Cor-Bon.It is a bit
more powerful than the .32 ACP round, yet produces less recoil, and approaches
the power of the .380 ACP cartridge.

Nominal Size:
7.65x17mm

Actual Size:
7.85x17.27mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 10.5 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $170 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.008 kg

6-round box: 0.09 kg

.32 Short Colt

Notes: This
round was originally a blackpowder round introduced in 1875.The .32 Short Colt was actually more popular in Europe in its blackpowder
form, where a large number of revolvers were chambered for it.The round has decent stopping power, but accuracy is not good.Winchester was still manufacturing this round until recently, though some
Cowboy Shooting enthusiasts have demanded its return.It is easily handloaded starting with a number of similar rounds, like
the .32 Smith & Wesson Short or .32 Smith & Wesson Long.

Other Names:
.320 Revolver, .32 Police Positive

Nominal Size:
8x16mm

Actual Size:
7.95x16mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 8 kg per
case of 1000; Price: $130 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

.32 Smith & Wesson

Notes: This is a very
old cartridge, originally a blackpowder round, which appeared in 1878.It is largely a revolver round, and is almost never found in other types
of firearms.It is small, light,
cheap, and, you basically get what you pay for, as it is considered minimal for
self-defense.

Other Names: .32
Smith & Wesson Short, DWM202, GR930

Nominal Size:
7.65x16mm

Actual Size:
7.92x15.5mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 7.63 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $120 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

.32 Smith & Wesson Long

Notes: This
cartridge was designed as a revolver round in 1903.It then had a flat-nosed bullet, and was called the .32 Colt New Police.Later the bullet was given its present ogive profile.The primary use these days for the .32 Smith & Wesson Long cartridge is
in free pistol target shooting.It
is the smallest revolver cartridge that is considered adequate for US police
officers.

Other Names: .32
Colt New Police, .32-44 Target, GR-391, 7.65x32mmR

Nominal Size:
7.65x24mm

Actual Size:
7.92x23.62mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:11.63 kg per case of 1000; Price:$190 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

5-round box: 0.09 kg

6-round box: 0.1 kg

10-round box: 0.16 kg

.38 Casull

Notes:This round was designed to provide a cartridge equal to the .357 Magnum,
while fitting in a 1911-type frame.
In this case Dick Casull succeeded: in 1998, he created the .38 Casull round.It uses what looks like a .45 ACP case necked down to .38 caliber, but is
actually a new case that takes advantage of the necked design.So far, only the CA-3900 fires the .38 Casull.

Nominal Size:
9x24mm

Actual Size:
9.09x23.88mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 1.55 kg
per box of 100; Price: $50 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.012 kg

8-round box: 0.18 kg

.38 Long Centerfire

Notes: This
round began as a blackpowder rimfire cartridge that was quickly replaced by a
centerfire round, and was therefore renamed .38 Long Centerfire.It was chambered in a number of single shot rifles and a few revolvers,
but by 1900, was considered obsolete, even in its smokeless powder form.It began to be manufactured again in very small lots (at first after the
1993 film Tombstone
for the reproduction of the 1873 Colt used in that movie), and is now still
made (again, in very small lots) for
the Cowboy Shooting crowd, mostly in the form of empty cases.The .38 Long Centerfire is also easily handloaded.

Other Names: .38
Long CF

Nominal Size:
9x26mm

Actual Size:
9.53x26.16mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.86 kg
per box of 100; Price: $60 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

.38 Long Colt

Notes:The official US military handgun cartridge before the advent of the
M-1911A1 and the .45 ACP round, the .38 Long Colt was also in common use by
police forces in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.This means that quite a few weapons chambered for .38 Long Colt are still
around.Ballistically, the .38 Long
Colt is almost the equal of the .38 Special.Some old .38 Long Colt-firing revolvers will also chamber .38 Special or
.357 Magnum cartridges, but this is a sign of extreme wear and these weapons
should not be fired, especially with .357 Magnum ammunition.(This would probably destroy the revolver and injure the firer and anyone
nearby.)Remington is now
manufacturing .38 Long Colt ammunition again, as is Black Hills ammunition, in
response to the demands of the Cowboy Shooting enthusiasts.

Nominal Size:
9x26mm

Actual Size:
9.07x26.16mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:16.88 per case of 1000; Price: $270 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.014 kg

.38 Smith & Wesson

Notes: This old
round was first designed for Smith & Wesson’s hinged-frame revolvers in 1877.The .38 Smith & Wesson has been used all over the world, once being the
most prevalent handgun cartridge in the world.It is well-suited to lightweight pocket revolvers, with relatively little
recoil.At short range, the
stopping power is excellent, but range falls off rapidly.Remington still manufactures .38 Smith & Wesson ammunition.

Notes: This
round was developed for the Smith & Wesson Military & Police revolver of 1902.It was originally a military-only cartridge, replacing the unsatisfactory
.38 Long Colt.The police soon
picked up on it, and it became the most common police revolver round for many
decades.It is considered one of
the best handgun cartridges ever made, with a combination of range, low recoil,
and with proper barrel length, ability to penetrate body armor.It should be noted that any revolver that is chambered for the .357
Magnum cartridge can also chamber and fire the .38 Special cartridge (but not
vice versa); the bullets and shells are the same size, but shorter.

Notes: This
round was introduced in 1929 to improve upon the .38 Automatic round.It is almost identical to the older round, but uses a more powerful
propellant loading.It was a
curiosity for many decades, but then many manufacturers at once seemed to pick
up on the virtues of the round and began chambering pistols for them.The .38 Super has a flat trajectory at most ranges and performs better
than a 9mm Parabellum round at the same ranges.It penetrates body armor better than a .45 ACP, but has inferior stopping
power in most cases.

Other Names: .38
Super Automatic, .38 Super ACP

Nominal Size:
9x23mm

Actual Size:
9.09x22.86mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:14.88 kg per case of 1000; Price:$240 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.012 kg

7-round box: 0.15 kg

8-round box: 0.17 kg

9-round box: 0.19 kg

10-round box: 0.21 kg

12-round box: 0.24 kg

15-round box: 0.3 kg

16-round box: 0.32 kg

30-round box: 0.57 kg

.40 Smith & Wesson

Notes: This
round began as an experiment of a joint venture between Winchester and Smith &
Wesson in 1989.The FBI was working
with 10mm Colt-firing pistols and felt that while the stopping power and
penetration of the 10mm cartridge was excellent, the round was too big and hot
for everyday use, especially by female agents.They were therefore looking for a smaller round with comparable power.The power of the .40 Smith & Wesson rivals that of the .45 ACP, but the
chamber pressures can be so great that a pistol has to be made especially to
withstand it.

Other Names: .40
Smith & Wesson Auto

Nominal Size:
10x21mm

Actual Size:
10.16x21.59mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:17.5 kg per case of 1000; Price $280 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.014 kg

5-round box: 0.14 kg

6-round box: 0.16 kg

7-round box: 0.18 kg

8-round box: 0.2 kg

9-round box: 0.22 kg

10-round box: 0.24 kg

11-round box: 0.27 kg

12-round box: 0.29 kg

13-round box: 0.31 kg

14-round box: 0.33 kg

15-round box: 0.35 kg

16-round box: 0.37 kg

22-round box: 0.5 kg

25-round box: 0.57 kg

30-round box: 0.67 kg

35-round box: 0.78 kg

.41 Action Express

Notes: The .41
Action Express round is a magnum-type round developed to give 9mm handguns much
more power without having to do a large amount of modifications to them.The first factory loads were made in Israel in 1986.Handloading the .41 Action Express is difficult, since the case cannot be
readily formed by modifying any other cases, though with extensive work, a .41
Magnum case can be used.The
performance of the .41 Action Express round is similar to that of the .41
Magnum, though it is more pleasant to shoot and it is primarily a pistol rather
than a revolver round.

Other Names: .41
AE, 10.4mm Action Express, 10.4mm AE

Nominal Size:
10.4x22mm

Actual Size:
10.41x22mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:18.75 kg per case of 1000; Price: $300 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

6-round box: 0.17 kg

7-round box: 0.19 kg

8-round box: 0.22 kg

9-round box: 0.24 kg

10-round box: 0.26 kg

11-round box: 0.28 kg

12-round box: 0.31 kg

15-round box: 0.38 kg

20-round box: 0.49 kg

28-round box: 0.67 kg

32-round box: 0.77 kg

.41 Long Colt

Notes:
Originally a blackpowder round designed for the Colt Lightning revolver, the .41
was for a while at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries
chambered in several revolvers, and was soon made into a smokeless propellant
round.However, no production
revolvers have been chambered for .41 Long Colt since the early 1930s.The .41 Long Colt is a lengthened .41 Short Colt round, designed at the
same time as that round.The .41
Long Colt was quite popular during the time it and its revolvers were produced,
but it has long been obsolete. Stopping power (with smokeless powder) almost
matches the .38 Special round, though it uses a slow, heavy bullet, and does not
have the .38 Special’s range or accuracy.Except for a small batch Winchester made in 1970, the .41 Long Colt has
been out of production, and is in the realm of handloaders today.

Nominal Size:
10.2x29mm

Actual Size:
10.19x28.7mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.06 kg
per box of 100; Price: $75 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.019 kg

.41 Magnum

Notes:This has been a controversial cartridge since its inception in 1964.Many wonder what the need is for this round, since we already have the
.357 Magnum and .44 Magnum.Greater
stopping power can be put into the .357 Magnum by using heavier bullets, and the
.41 Magnum cannot hope to approach the .44 Magnum in power or range.However, some people want something bigger than the .357, but do not want
to have to deal with the blast and recoil of the .44 Magnum.The .41 Magnum is for them.
However, it was never a very popular round, and few guns chamber it today.

Other Names: .41
Remington Magnum

Nominal Size:
10.4x31.8mm

Actual Size:
10.41x32.51mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:27.63 kg per case of 1000; Price:$440 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.022 kg

7-round box: 0.28 kg

9-round box: 0.35 kg

.41 Short Colt

Notes: This
round was developed in 1877 for use in Colt’s new double-action revolver, and it
was later used in half a dozen other revolvers.It is basically a longer version of the .41 Short Colt, and was
originally a blackpowder round.
Conversion to smokeless powder came later.It was popular for many years, though it’s performance is not that
different from the .38Special
round, and it eventually became obsolete in favor of that round.Though Winchester produced a small run in 1970, there has been no
large-scale manufacturing of the .41 Long colt in decades, and most such rounds
today are handloaded.Some were
produced in the mid-1990s after the movie Tombstone,
but this was a very small number.

Nominal Size:
10.2x29mm

Actual Size:
10.19x18.7mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.34 kg
per box of 100; Price: $49

Magazines:

Per round: 0.019 kg

.44 AMP

Notes: This
round was developed in 1971 specifically for the AutoMag 44, later marketed by
High Standard, then AMT.At the
time, no one could figure out how to reliably make an automatic pistol function
using .44 Magnum ammunition.This
special round was therefore created; it was made by simply cutting off .30-06 or
7.62mm NATO cases until they were 1.3 inches and then trimming.After the demise of the pistol, ammunition was for a time made in Mexico,
then in Sweden.However, no one
now, other than handloaders, is making the .44 AMP (AutoMag Projectile) round.

Other Names: .44
AutoMag Projectile

Nominal Size:
10.9x32.9mm

Actual Size:
10.9x32.97mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:3.08 kg per box of 100; Price $98 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.025 kg

7-round box: 0.32 kg

.44 Colt

Notes: This was
originally a blackpowder cartridge used as a standard service round by the US
Army in the early 1870s.The round
was later used with smokeless powder, and loaded commercially until 1940.The Revolvers that fire this round have become very rare, and original
rounds in this caliber even rarer.
Most rounds of this type are handloaded, usually for SASS shooters.It has pretty decent power for a handgun cartridge.

Nominal Size:
10.9x28mm

Actual Size:
11.25x27.94mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.78 kg
per box of 100; Price: $88 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.022 kg

.44 Magnum

Notes: This
cartridge was a joint development of Smith & Wesson and Remington, designed for
a new heavy-frame revolver.It was
meant to beat the .357 Magnum in power, in a case of pure one-upsmanship.It proved to be enormously popular, and was for a while the most powerful
handgun round.Police like is for
its ability to penetrate body armor and vehicles, hunters like it (in rifles)
for its range and ability to bring down big game.However, most police and civilians shy away from .44 Magnum handguns due
to their power and recoil.

A subsonic
version of the .44 Magnum cartridge is made.These rounds are for specialist applications with silenced rifles, and
few guns use them.Triple all
ammunition prices for these rounds.

Other Names: .44
Remington Magnum

Nominal Size:
11.2x32.8mm

Actual Size:
10.9x32.77mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:30.63 kg per case of 1000; Price $490 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.025 kg

3-round box: 0.16 kg

8-round box: 0.35 kg

.44 Smith & Wesson American

Notes:
Introduced in 1869, the .44 S&W American was one of the earliest centerfire
revolver cartridges.It was first
designed for blackpowder, but during most of its lifespan it was manufactured in
smokeless powder.Few revolvers
were actually designed for the .44 S&W American, but the enormous popularity of
the Colt Single Action Army revolver ensured that it stuck around until 1940,
and many still handload it today.
The bullet is almost identical to the .44 S&W Russian, but slightly larger and
heavier, and the cases can be made by reworking .44 Magnum cases.Suitable primers are still made.Most loads are low-powered as the revolvers for which it was designed are
largely blackpowder revolvers, and power is similar to the .41 Long Colt.

Nominal Size:
11x23mm

Actual Size:
11.02x23.11mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.94 kg
per box of 100; Price: $70 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.018 kg

.44 Smith & Wesson Russian

Notes:This round was designed by Smith & Wesson for the revolvers it sold to
the Russian military in 1870.A
civilian version of this revolver was sold starting in 1878.It was originally a blackpowder round, but made the transition to
smokeless powder.It was a favorite
handgun round of Buffalo Bill Cody.
It was a decent handgun round, but made obsolete by the .44 Special round, which
is better suited to modern propellants.A weapon chambered for .44 Special or .44 Magnum will also fire the .44
Smith & Wesson Russian.It can be
easily handloaded starting with .44 Special cases, and Fiocchi and Black Hills
sell it.

Other Names: .44
Short, .44 Russian, DWM242, GR960

Nominal Size:
11.2x25mm

Actual Size:
10.9x24.64mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:2.3 kg per box of 100; Price: $74 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.018 kg

.44 Special

Notes: The .44
Special round was originally a blackpowder cartridge, that went smokeless after
the introduction of smokeless powder.The smokeless propellant, with its greater powder, enabled it to achieve
greater power than the .44 Smith & Wesson Russian round it replaced.A variety of American, Spanish, and other European revolvers were
chambered for the .44 Special shortly after its introduction in 1907, but
interest waned until the past few decades.It is a very accurate cartridge, but was never developed to its potential
until recently.A revolver that can
fire .44 Magnum cartridges can also fire .44 Special cartridges (but not vice
versa).

Other Names: .44
Smith & Wesson Special, GR-964

Nominal Size:
11.2x29.5mm

Actual Size:
10.9x29.46mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:27.5 kg per case of 1000; Price:$440 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.022 kg

.44 Webley

Notes: This
round was designed for the Webley RIC (Royal Irish Constabulary) revolver in
1868.As with many rounds of this
period, it was originally designed to use blackpowder, but was later converted
for use with smokeless powder.It
was, for a time, quite popular for use in pocket revolvers and other
self-defense weapons.It is a
short-range round with decent stopping power due to its large, heavy bullet.The round is long obsolete, the original cartridges collectors’ items,
and any new rounds found today probably handloaded.

Notes: This
round was developed by John Browning himself in 1905 and was adopted as the
official US military pistol cartridge in 1911, along with the M-1911 pistol.Despite having fairly high recoil and being difficult to master, the .45
ACP round is the preferred pistol round of Western special operations forces,
due to its knockdown power.It is,
unfortunately, a heavy, slow round with little ability to penetrate body armor,
but the even the blunt trauma will produce significant wounds.Lately, interest has spiked in revolvers firing the .45 ACP round. The
.45 is also the preferred pistol round of US Special Operations forces, due to
the high stopping power and the fact that it is naturally subsonic and is
therefore quieter when used in a silenced weapon.

A rimmed version
of the .45 ACP also exists, called the .45 AutoRim.Costs and weights are identical to the .45 ACP round for game purposes,
although there are no High-Lethality and Extreme High-Lethality versions of the
.45 AutoRim.

The military
uses several special versions of the .45 ACP round.The .45 High-Lethality Round is packed with a bit more propellant and has
a pointed bullet for more range, power, and penetration.The .45 Extreme-Lethality Round is a virtual wildcat round packed with as
much propellant at possible, using a lighter steel-cored bullet for even more
increased power and penetration.
The .45 High-Lethality Round costs 30 times normal; the .45 Extreme-Lethality
Round costs 45 times normal.They
are normally available only in 100-round box form. The High-Lethality round has
a one-step increase in penetration and one-point increase in damage; the Extreme
Lethality round has a two-step increase in penetration and a two-point increase
in damage.Note that only certain
very well-constructed weapons can fire the High-Lethality and Extreme
High-Lethality rounds; most of these are military.

Notes: The .45
GAP cartridge was actually not invented by Glock, as many people think, but by
Winchester.It was, however,
invented at the request of Glock in 2003, for a then-pending pistol which
shortly became the Glock 37.It
essentially allows virtually the same performance as the .45 ACP round, but in a
smaller package; this is because while the .45 GAP round is about 3.18mm shorter
than the .45 ACP round, it contains the same bullet and about the same
propellant charge.(The .45 ACP
case has always had more room for propellant than is actually loaded within the
case; if you shake a .45 ACP round near your ear, you can actually hear that
there isn’t really much propellant in the case, relative to the length of the
case.)

AP rounds are
available for the .45 GAP cartridge (known as LEO, or Law-Enforcement-Only
rounds); these are made only by Winchester, and cost 10 times the normal costs
listed below.Frangible bullets
also exist for the .45 GAP; these are normal cost.Except for the AP rounds, Speer and Hodgdon make .45 GAP rounds.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .45 GAP does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline (nor does any
weapon which fires it).

Other Names: .45
Glock Auto Pistol

Nominal Size:
11.43x19mm

Actual Size:
11.48x19.05mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 17.38 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $320 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.016 kg

6-round box: 0.18 kg

7-round box: 0.2 kg

8-round box: 0.23 kg

9-round box: 0.25 kg

12-round box: 0.32 kg

15-round box: 0.4 kg

.45 Hirtenberger

Notes: The .45
Hirtenberger was developed for only one purpose – to provide a .45 ACP-like
round that could be used by Italian civilians.Italy has very strict laws against civilians using firearms that fire
“military” rounds, so from mid-1985 and mid-1987, Hirtenberger Munitions of
Austria produced this round.The
.45 Hirtenberger round was produced by shortening a .45 ACP case just enough to
satisfy Italian law.The bullet is
essentially the same as a .45 ACP round, but as the case is a little shorter and
pressures a little higher, the muzzle velocity is just a little higher (a little
over 10 meters per second higher).
Performance is therefore almost identical to that of the .45 ACP round.The .45 Hirtenberger was not a sales success, was not produced in large
lots, and is not being produced now, so it is a rather rare cartridge these
days.It is, however, easily made
by handloaders.

Other Names: .45
HP, .45 Hirtenberger Patronen

Nominal Size:
11.4x21.7mm

Actual Size:
11.48x30.99mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.57 kg
per box of 100; Price: $103 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.026 kg

13-round box: 0.57 kg

.45 Long Colt

Notes: This is a
very old cartridge, introduced in 1873 for Colt’s Peacemaker single-action
revolver.The cartridge (and the
revolver) were adopted by the US Army in 1875, and remained the official
military handgun cartridge until 1892.The .45 Long Colt was originally a blackpowder cartridge that was later
converted to smokeless powder.
There is a certain amount of romance associated with the round, given its
reputation as the round that “won the West.”The .45 Long Colt is still a favorite of American revolver aficionados,
especially in replicas of Old West revolvers.The stopping power of the cartridge is greater than that of the .45 ACP.

Other Names: .45
Colt

Nominal Size:
11.43x33mm

Actual Size:
11.53x32.77mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:34.25 kg per case of 1000; Price:$550 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.027 kg

.45 S&W Schofield

Notes: This is a
very old cartridge first developed for the US Army’s Smith & Wesson Schofield
revolver.It was used until 1892,
when replaced by a .38 Special-firing revolver.The round was loaded commercially until about 1940, then discontinued by
virtually all manufacturers; in 1997, the cartridge was again loaded
commercially by Black Hills Ammunition in response to demand from Cowboy
Shooting enthusiasts.The .45 Smith
& Wesson Schofield was designed because the .45 Long Colt did not fit into the
new revolver (it was too long).
Revolvers that fire .45 Long Colt can almost always fire .45 Smith & Wesson
Schofield, but the reverse is almost never true.Handloaders who load the .45 Smith & Wesson cartridge should remember
that the round was designed for blackpowder, so only a small amount of smokeless
powder should be used in the .45 Smith & Wesson Schofield round.

Twilight 2000
Notes: Factory-made rounds are not available.

Other Names: .45
Smith & Wesson Schofield, .45 Smith & Wesson

Nominal Size:
11.5x28mm

Actual Size:
11.53x27.94mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.91 kg
per box of 100; Price: $94 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.023 kg

.45 Super

Notes:Developed in 1988 by the Gun World
magazine editor Dean Grennell, the .45 Super is essentially a hot-loaded .45 ACP
round using stronger brass.The .45
ACP’s dimensions were chosen to fit properly in the M-1911’s operating system
and to fit the relatively low efficiency of smokeless powder at the time; with
modern propellants, the case of the .45 ACP does in fact contain a lot of empty
room when it contains a standard-power propellant load.As .45 ACP brass is relatively thin-walled, Grenell chose to work from
the .451 Detonics round, which was also built for a more powerful propellant
load but has almost the same dimensions as the .45 ACP round.
Though almost any pistol designed for
.45 ACP can chamber the .45 Super, this can be anywhere from unwise to dangerous
– at a minimum, you will dramatically shorten the life of the action of the
pistol, and at worst, cause a chamber explosion.At present, only two companies, both in the US, make factory-loaded .45
Super ammunition.

Other Names: .45
Super Auto

Nominal Size:
11.43x23mm

Actual Size:
11.48x22.73mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.07 kg
per box of 100; Price: $75 per box

Per round: 0.019 kg

7-round box: 0.24 kg

8-round box: 0.27 kg

13-round box: 0.41 kg

.45 Webley

Notes: The .45
Webley originated as a blackpowder round in about 1874, but did not appear in
catalogs until 1876.It is similar
to the .450 Revolver case, but is longer.A revolver designed for the .450 Revolver round will generally be able to
fire .45 Webley ammunition (and vice versa).Late in the round’s history, it was changed to smokeless powder.The last known manufactured ammunition was made in 1939 by Winchester.Any present today is handloaded or a collector’s item.

Nominal Size:
11.5x21mm

Actual Size:
11.48x20.83mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.15 kg
per box of 100; Price: $68 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.017 kg

.45 Winchester Magnum

Notes: This
cartridge was first introduced in 1979.Winchester didn’t do anything with it, but Wildey chambered for its heavy
Magnum semiautomatic pistol, and Thompson/Center put it in one of their
Contender single-shot target/hunting pistols.The .45 Winchester Magnum is basically a long version of the .45 ACP
round, with appropriate increases in power and penetration.It remains, however, a rare chambering.

Nominal Size:
11.6x30mm

Actual Size:
11.46x30.43mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:3.14 kg per box of 100; Price:$100 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.025 kg

6-round box: 0.028 kg

8-round box: 0.36 kg

12-round box: 0.51 kg

.50 Action Express

Notes: This
round was developed in 1988 by Action Arms for a new version of the Desert Eagle
heavy pistol.The round was
designed to allow IMI to adapt the Desert Eagle to the new cartridge with as
little modification of the pistol as possible, so it was based on the .44 Magnum
round.It is a powerful magnum
round that has almost too much power for a handgun; handguns chambered for .50
Action Express are necessarily huge.

Other Names: .50
AE

Nominal Size:
12.7x34mm

Actual Size:
12.7x32.64mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:41.38 kg per case of 1000; $660 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.033 kg

5-round box: 0.32 kg

7-round box: 0.42 kg

10-round box: 0.58 kg

14-round box: 0.78 kg

.50 GI

Notes:This round is an original design of Guncrafter industries, a relatively
new firearms company in Huntsville, Arkansas.It was meant to bring .50-caliber performance to the M-1911-type weapon,
and is therefore very close in size and shape to the .45 ACP round – short and
fat; in fact, the rim is rebated and the same diameter as that of a .45 ACP
round, making conversions of weapons rather easy.The .50 GI round was designed from the ground up, however, and is not
just a sized-up .45 ACP round.The
walls or the cartridge are thinner but made of stronger metal, and it was
designed to operate at lower pressures and lower velocities than the .45 ACP
round.It provides striking power
slightly greater than the .45 ACP however.Right now, since the company is just starting up, the round and the
pistol which fires it (the Guncrafter Industries Model 1) are relatively rare;
time will tell whether this is just another interesting M-1911 variant, or
something which is more widely accepted.

Twilight 2000
Notes: This round does not exist.

Other Names: .50
Guncrafter Industries

Nominal Size:
12.7x23mm

Actual Size:
13.08x22.81mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 3.06 kg
per box of 100; Price: $96 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.025 kg

7-round box: 0.31 kg

.224 BOZ

Notes: The .224
BOZ round is a little-known and little-used round; Civil Defence Supply in
England, who makes the round and the weapons which fire them, has seen little
sales for these products.Only two
weapons are designed to fire the round, a modified Glock 20 pistol (the G-224)
and a modified MP-5 submachinegun (the MP5-224).The .224 BOZ is a 10mm Colt round necked down very heavily to accept a
5.56mm NATO armor-piercing bullet, and is quite hot-loaded.The round is powerful and produces high chamber pressures in the weapons
involved, so much so that they need to be strengthened to handle the wear and
tear that firing the .224 BOZ produces (especially in the Glock 20 frames and
the MP-5 chambers and barrel extensions).The round offers high penetration and damage similar to an assault rifle,
even when fired from a G-224.
Though it has been tested by military and police forces, no orders beyond rounds
for test models for various agencies have been produced as of yet.It is conceivable that the .224 BOZ could be easily handloaded, though no
call for this has arisen; problems with civilians getting AP bullets could also
be a problem.The .224 sort of
resembles a short magnum round for a rifle, though it is much shorter than any
short magnum round.CDS absolutely
refuses to sell the rounds, its modified weapons for the .224 BOZ round, or any
of the tooling or dies for the rounds or weapons, to civilians, and they check
police and military concerns very closely.However, the round is in fact more powerful than the typical pistol or
submachinegun round, and has more penetration than most magnum rounds.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .224 BOZ is a very rare round in the Twilight 2000 timeline, as are
the weapons which fire it. Most of the few such weapons in use are firing
handloaded rounds.

Nominal Size:
5.56x23mm

Actual Size:
5.69x23mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 0.64 kg
per box of 100; Price: $56 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

10-round box: 0.1 kg

12-round box: 0.12 kg

20-round box: 0.19 kg

30-round box: 0.28 kg

.224 Harvey Kay-Chuk

Notes: The .224
Harvey Kay-Chuk is the product of firearms expert Jim Harvey, who developed it
in 1956.It is still considered a
wildcat, though it does have broad appeal among a lot of handgun hunters, due to
its flat trajectory, low recoil, and surprising power for its size.Few revolvers have been designed for the .224 Harvey Kay-Chuk, and the
round was never produced in anything but a few small lots; it is probable that
even the standard 100-round box lots I use as a standard are not available.The case is based on the .22 Remington Jet, along with one of the lighter
versions of the .22 Jet’s bullets.

Nominal Size:
5.7x33mm

Actual Size:
5.69x33.51mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 0.94 kg
per box of 100; Price: $17 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.009 kg

.224V

Notes: Though
currently fired only by the Swiss ASAI MTE-V and MTE-VA pistols, the .224V round
was actually developed in the Czech Republic by the Caliber Prague Organization.The .224V round is essentially a 7.62mm Tokarev round necked down to
accept a shortened 5.56mm NATO bullet.The intent was to provide PDW-type ammunition that combined the flat
trajectory of the 7.62mm Tokarev round with the low recoil and higher
penetration of a 5.56mm bullet, and also to increase the muzzle velocity due to
using a relatively large powder charge to fire a smaller bullet.Though the rounds and the pistols are still being shopped around, they
have yet to see any large sales.
(The market is getting more and more glutted with PDW-type designs, so the
future of this round may be in doubt.)

Other Names: 5.56V

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .224V round is not available in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Nominal Size:
5.56x23.5mm

Actual Size:
5.69x23.5mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 4.8 kg
per box of 100; Price: $19 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.005 kg

16-round box: 0.13 kg

26-round box: 0.2 kg

.320 Revolver

Notes:Though the .32 Short and Long Colts are often called .320 Revolver in
Britain, this .320 Revolver round is actually the round that inspired the .32
Short and Long Colt rounds, and is considered the
real .320 Revolver cartridge.It was first used in the Webley revolver in 1870 as a blackpowder round,
but was later chambered in several European pocket revolvers.It is no longer being manufactured by any big companies, though until
recently Fiocchi offered it.It has
ballistics and effects similar to the .32 Short Colt – reasonable for
self-defense, but not accurate.

Nominal Size:
8x16mm

Actual Size:
8.05x15.75mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 0.8 kg
per box of 100; Price: $26 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.006 kg

.327 Federal

Notes: The .327
Federal is a new magnum round introduced in 2007 by Ruger for use in a new
version of its SP-101 revolver.The
idea was to produce a round which improves on the .32 H&R Magnum, and possibly
to provide a round with the power of a .357 Magnum in a smaller package with
less kick.The .327 Federal is an
improvement on the .32 H&R Magnum, but does not achieve the goal of providing
.357 Magnum power.Since its
introduction, several other revolvers have been designed to fire the .327
Federal round, most notably the Charter Arms Patriot, which is currently
chambered only for .327 Federal; some gunsmiths have also chambered the .327
Federal in other revolvers on an experimental basis with good results.The .327 Federal is the same diameter as the .32 H&R Magnum, but with a
stretched case that holds more propellant.The bullets themselves are the same as in the .32 H&R Magnum.Recoil is not nearly that of the .357 Magnum if fired from a revolver of
the same size and weight, but is more than that of the .32 H&R Magnum.Performance is, in fact, similar to that of the .32-20 Winchester rifle
round in a revolver.Though it has
not been done yet, it is believed that it is only a matter of time before
lever-action rifles and carbines are offered chambered for .327 Federal.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .327 Federal does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline..327 Federal ammunition is currently made by Federal Cartridges, Ruger,
and Fiocchi.

Other Names:
.327 Federal Magnum

Nominal Size:
8x30mm

Actual Size:
7.92x30.43mm

Case Type: Straight

Weight: 15 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $240 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.012 kg

.356 TSW

Notes:The .356 TSW roundwas
introduced in 1995, and was designed by Lew Horton and Team Smith & Wesson
specifically for IPSC competition.
It was designed to provide a cartridge with ballistics superior to the .357 SiG
and .357 Magnum rounds (but not necessarily more power).It is essentially a hotloaded 9mm-class round – many say unnecessarily
so. The only production handgun to use
the .356 TSW cartridge was Smith & Wesson Super 9 version of the Model 900
series.The round failed in the
sales department quickly; reasons cited were its hot loading and that the round
was not marketed to shooters that might have liked it the best – hunters.

Other Names:
.356 Team Smith & Wesson

Nominal Size:
9x21.5mm

Actual Size:
9.04x21.48mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.21 kg
per box of 100; Price: $44 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

15-round box: 0.28 kg

.357 AMP

Notes: This is a
.44 AMP case necked down to .357 caliber.It was not as popular as the .44 AMP round-firing Automag, and it did not
appear until 1973.The rounds were
manufactured in the US for a while, then in Mexico and Sweden, but are now made
only by handloaders or special orders.Like the .44 AMP, the .357 AMP is quite a bit more powerful than its .357
Magnum counterpart.As a pistol
hunting round, the .357 AMP is pretty good, but it’s a bit overpowered for
self-defense (though it will bring a man down pretty easily).

Notes: This
lengthened, hot-loaded .38 Special cartridge was introduced in 1935 by Smith &
Wesson for its heavy-frame revolvers.It was the most powerful handgun cartridge in the world until the advent
of the .44 Magnum in 1955.
Virtually every revolver maker has chambered a revolver for the .357 Magnum
round, and some semiautomatic pistols are also made to fire it.It rivals the .38 Special for ubiquity in police revolvers.It can also be used in rifles, where it has brought down game as big as
grizzly bears.Some countries’
special operations forces still use revolvers chambered for the .357 Magnum
round, considering them to be superior to pistols.

Other Names:
.357 Smith & Wesson Magnum

Nominal Size:
9x33mm

Actual Size:
9.07x32.77mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:21.13 kg per case of 1000; Price $340 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.017 kg

5-round box: 0.16 kg

7-round box: 0.22 kg

9-round box: 0.27 kg

.357 Maximum

Notes: This
round is the result of a collaboration between Remington and Ruger in 1983.The first weapon to chamber the round was a modified Ruger Blackhawk
revolver, followed by a Dan Wesson design and the Thompson/Center Contender
single-shot target/hunting pistol.
The .357 Maximum is basically a longer version of the .357 Magnum cartridge,
with appropriate increases in propellant and power.The first weapons to fire the round were modified from .357 Magnum-firing
weapons, but it was found that even these tough weapons could not handle the new
round and wore out quickly.A
weapon therefore has to be designed specifically to fire the .357 Maximum.It has been said that the best application of the .357 Maximum would be
in a rifle, but none have as of yet been designed to fire it.

Other Names:
.357 Remington Maximum, .357 SuperMag

Nominal Size:
9x40mm

Actual Size:
9.07x40.39mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:2.61 kg per box of 100; Price:$42 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.021 kg

.357 SiG

Notes: This is a
.40 Smith & Wesson case necked down to accept a 9mm bullet.The idea was to achieve .357 Magnum ballistics (but not necessarily
power) from semiautomatic pistols.
It is a compact round that offers good performance in a small package.These rounds tend to be loaded with a large amount of propellant, and
this gives them their high velocity.The .357 SiG round is slowly becoming more popular in the world, and some
police departments have adopted it.

Nominal Size:
9x22mm

Actual Size:
9.07x21.97mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 14.25 kg
per case of 1000; Price $230 per case (S/R)

Magazines:

Per round: 0.011 kg

7-round box: 0.15 kg

9-round box: 0.18 kg

10-round box: 0.2 kg

12-round box: 0.23 kg

13-round box: 0.25 kg

14-round box: 0.27 kg

15-round box: 0.29 kg

.380 ACP

Notes: This
round was introduced in the Colt Pocket Automatic series in 1908.Several governments have adopted it as their official military pistol
cartridge, and many others have adopted it as a secondary standard.Virtually all pistol manufacturers have, at one time or another,
chambered a pistol to fire the .380 ACP round.It has more stopping power and range than the .32 ACP, but is in essence
an overgrown version of the .32 ACP.It is considered the minimum pistol cartridge for offensive work.

Notes: The .380
British Service round is a slightly modified version of the .38 Smith & Wesson
round, developed in 1922 primarily to take advantage of smokeless powder and to
fit the unique dimensions of British service revolvers of the time.Another major difference was that the .380 British Service used a heavier
bullet of a softer lead alloy; later this was issued with a lighter jacketed
bullet and called the .380 Revolver IIz round. Measurements are only minimally
different from the .38 Smith & Wesson round, but enough that the two are not
interchangeable.

Notes: This
round was designed for the Webley revolver after it was discovered that most
people simply couldn’t handle the recoil and power of the .455 Webley Mk I, and
that such a powerful cartridge was not necessarily needed in a handgun cartridge
(or so it was thought at the time).
It was designed in 1868 as a blackpowder round, then changed to smokeless
powder.The .38 Short Colt is
largely a copy of the .380 Revolver round, and most revolvers designed for the
.380 Revolver round will also chamber and fire the .38 Short Colt without a
problem.Currently, the only
company loading the .380 Revolver round is Fiocchi.

Other Names:
.380 Webley Revolver

Nominal Size:
9x18mm

Actual Size:
9.53x17.78mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 1.26 kg
per box of 100; Price: $40 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.01 kg

.400 Cor-Bon

Notes: This is a
.45 ACP cartridge necked down to 40 caliber.It was designed partially to boost .40-caliber performance; however, the
main reason it was designed is that most existing .40 and .45 Caliber pistols
can be modified to fire .400 Cor-Bon simply by changing the barrel and feed
ramp.The .400 Cor-Bon produces a
round of higher power than .40 caliber rounds, with less recoil than the .45
ACP.It is an excellent
self-defense round, approaching the 10mm Colt in stopping power.

Nominal Size:
10x23mm

Actual Size:
10.1x22.8mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 18.25 per case of
1000; Price: $290 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.015 kg

7-round box: 0.19 kg

10-round box: 0.26 kg

.440 Cor-Bon

Notes: This
relatively-new cartridge was designed in 1997 by necking down a .50 Action
Express cartridge to .429 caliber.
It is designed more for pistol hunting than anything else, but lends itself to
self-defense in heavier weapons such as the Tromix Jackhammer due to the lower
recoil than the .50 Action Express and superior stopping power than other pistol
cartridges normally used in submachineguns.The ballistics are comparable to those of the .454 Casull.

Nominal Size:
10.9x33mm

Actual Size:
10.9x32.51mm

Case Type:
Necked

Weight: 30.38 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $490 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.024 kg

7-round box: 0.31 kg

10-round box: 0.42 kg

15-round box: 0.61 kg

.445 SuperMag

Notes: Designed
by Elgin Gates and later popularized in Dan Wesson’s revolver designs, the .445
SuperMag is still considered a semi-wildcat round today.Dan Wesson is the only one who has designed a production revolver firing
the .445 SuperMag, though some tinkerers have modified weapons to fire the
round.The .445 SuperMag is
essentially a stretched .44 Magnum round, using the same bullets.Starline is the only company that ever produced lots of cases, and that
was some time ago.Every so often,
a company will produce small lots of .445 SuperMag, with the latest being the
Dan Wesson company (under the CZ-USA umbrella), but it is by no means a
cartridge in large-scale production.The .445 SuperMag produces a large amount of muzzle blast and recoil, and
revolvers designed for it are generally large and heavy.

Nominal Size:
11x41mm

Actual Size:
10.97x40.64mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 3.38 kg
per box of 100; Price: $123 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.031 kg

.450 Revolver

Notes: This was
the British Army’s first centerfire revolver cartridge, adopted in 1868.It was originally a blackpowder cartridge, but was later adapted for
smokeless powder.It was never a
satisfactory military round, but had a surprisingly long period of use, still
being used in reserve weapons until World War 1.The .450 Revolver round can be fired from revolver designed for .455
Webley ammunition without a problem (but not vice versa).It has long been considered obsolete, but Fiocchi still makes lots of
this ammunition from time to time.

Notes:
Introduced in 1983, the .451 Detonics Magnum round was designed to allow a
1911-type pistol to take a more powerful round with performance similar to the
.45 Winchester Magnum; the .45 Winchester Magnum itself is too long to fit into
a 1911-type pistol without redesigning the weapon to the point that you
essentially have a new pistol.
Pistols firing the .451 Detonics Magnum (primarily certain limited-production
Detonics pistols of the 1980s and early 1990s), however, do require some
modification (primarily to chamber length and some strengthening), and pistols
that can chamber the .45 ACP cannot chamber the .451 Detonics Magnum (though
pistols chambered for the .451 can chamber the .45 ACP round).The .451 Detonics Magnum round also uses a case with thicker walls and a
greater propellant charge.Bullets
for the .451 Detonics Magnum are also lighter than the typical 230-grain .45 ACP
bullet.The .451 Detonics Magnum is
no longer being manufactured (and never were in large quantities), except by
handloaders.

Other Names:
.451 Detonics, .451 Det/Mag

Nominal Size:
11.43x24mm

Actual Size:
11.48x24.08mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.19 kg
per box of 100; Price: $80 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.02 kg

6-round box: 0.22 kg

7-round box: 0.26 kg

8-round box: 0.29 kg

.454 Casull

Notes: This
round was developed in 1957 for Dick Casull’s 454 Casull revolver.The round is essentially a stretched .45 Long Colt round.This round has not been chambered in many revolvers and is still a rather
rare round.It is easily more
powerful than the .45 Long Colt round, and is even more powerful than the .44
Magnum.The bullets are unusually
hard and have good penetrative power.A revolver that is chambered for the .454 Casull round can also fire .45
Long Colt ammunition; however, the cylinders must be carefully cleaned before
firing .454 Casull again, or the revolver can be damaged beyond repair due to
fouling.

Nominal Size:
11.5x35mm

Actual Size:
11.48x35.31mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight:3.65 kg per box of 100; Price:$116 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.029 kg

.455 Webley Automatic

Notes: This is a
semi-rimmed round adapted from the Webley revolver rounds, and first used in the
1912 Webley self-loading pistol.It
is a low velocity round (even lower than that of the .45 ACP), and has a very
blunt nose that cause it to lose speed quickly.It was retired from British service (along with the pistol that fired it)
at the end of World War 1.Though
many of the pistols were sold on the surplus market all over the world, very
little of the ammunition exists today, and most of it is handloaded.

Other Names:
.455 Webley Auto

Nominal Size:
11.5x24mm

Actual Size:
11.56x23.62mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.48 kg
per box of 100; Price: $80 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.02 kg

7-round box: 0.25 kg

.455 Webley Revolver Mk I

Notes: This
round was designed by the British in 1892 to replace several older revolver
rounds.It was at first designed to
be a blackpowder round, but in 1894 was re-designed to use smokeless powder.The last company to commercially load this round was Colt in 1930, until
Fiocchi began offering the round again in recent years.As a revolver round, it has basically adequate stopping power despite its
low velocity.

Notes: This is an
updated version of the .455 Webley Revolver Mk I (a round originally designed
for blackpowder).It was used until
World War 2, then the revolvers that fired them were sold on the open market at
cut-rate prices.The .455 Webley
Revolver Mk II is a very low-velocity round that does not have much striking
power despite its large size.
Fiocchi still makes the cartridge, but it is essentially obsolete except to
collectors.

Other Names:
.455 Revolver Mk II

Nominal Size:
11.5x19mm

Actual Size:
11.53x19.56mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.04 kg
per box of 100; Price: $66 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.016 kg

.460 Rowland

Notes: The .460
Rowland was designed specifically to out-perform the .45 Super round yet be
usable in 1911-type pistols with only a small conversion kit, and to have the
power of a .44 Magnum round in a cartridge designed for a semiautomatic pistol.(Clark Custom Guns does caution that not all 1911-type pistols are
suitable for conversion to .460 Rowland.)Designed by John Rowland in 1996, Rowland contracted with Clark Guns to
develop the conversion kit utilizing the .460 Rowland round.Some gunsmiths have also independently developed conversions to allow the
.460 Rowland to be fired from the Ruger Blackhawk and Smith & Wesson 25 and 625
revolvers, and a Mech-Tech kit exists to convert a .460 Rowland-firing 1911 into
a carbine.Complete cartridges,
bullets, and brass are primarily made by Georgia Arms and sold through Clark
Custom Guns; .460 Rowland brass is also available from Starline; bullets are
also available from Remington, Sierra, Speer, and Hornady.Though case length is longer, the complete cartridge is the same length
as that of the .45 ACP.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .460 Rowland is an extremely rare custom round in the Twilight 2000
timeline, fired from a few custom-built pistols.

Nominal Size:
11.68x25mm

Actual Size:
11.46x24.38mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.21 kg
per box of 100; Price: $80 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.02 kg

7-round box: 0.26 kg

8-round box: 0.29 kg

.460 Smith & Wesson Magnum

Notes: The .460
Smith & Wesson Magnum is essentially a longer, blown-out version of the .454
Casull round; physically, it dwarfs that round.It was designed primarily for use in handgun hunting, and can take down
even large game such as an elk or bear. Revolvers that can fire the .460 S&W
Magnum can usually also fire the .454 Casull round and the .45 Long Colt round,
but the reverse is not usually true – the pressures produced by the .460 round
are much too high for anything but a specially-designed weapon to handle.The .460 Smith & Wesson Magnum is even close to the .500 Smith & Wesson
Magnum for stopping power, range, and penetration, and revolvers designed for
the .500 S&W Magnum round can often be easily converted to fire .460 S&W Magnum.The .460 S&W Magnum is so powerful that Smith & Wesson absolutely insists
that a revolver chambered for it be fired with the shooter using ear protection
– the sound is so loud that it can damage hearing within firing a few rounds.Today, most major ammunition makers produce versions of the .460 Smith &
Wesson Magnum.

Notes: This
round was produced by John Linebaugh in 1988 in the never-ending quest to
develop the world’s most powerful handgun cartridge. (It was, for a short time.)The .475 Linebaugh is based on a cut-down .45-70 Government cartridge,
with a heavy bullet and chock-full of propellant.Its best use is hunting, self-defense against large animals, target
shooting, and for bragging rights.
Only the company of Buffalo Bore produces factory lots, but not in large
quantities.

Nominal Size:
12x38mm

Actual Size:
12.07x38.1mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 4.36 kg
per box of 100; Price: $140 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.038 kg

.475 Wildey Magnum

Notes: This
round was the second cartridge designed to be chambered in the huge Wildey
Magnum pistol, after the .45 Winchester Magnum.It is based on the .284 Winchester rifle cartridge, shortened greatly and
necked out to handle the large-caliber bullet involved.The .475 Wildey Magnum is best used as a hunting and target-shooting
cartridge; the heavy recoil and questionable accuracy unless carefully aimed
mean that it is not truly useful as a defensive or offensive weapon, though the
round could probably bring down Andre the Giant.Manufactured lots are available in the US, in small numbers.

Other Names:
.475 Wildey

Nominal Size:
12x33mm

Actual Size:
12.07x32.89mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 3.76 kg
per box of 100; Price: $120 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.03 kg

8-round box: 0.43 kg

.476 Enfield

Notes: This
British military revolver round had a relatively short military history, from
1881 to 1891, when it was replaced by the first of the .455 Webley rounds.The Mk III version is the version of the .476 Revolver round that used
smokeless powder; earlier marks used blackpowder.It too was an unsatisfactory round and quickly became obsolete, and the
province of handloaders.

Other Names:
.476 Enfield Mk III, .476 Eley, .455/476, .476 Revolver

Nominal Size:
12x22mm

Actual Size:
11.99x22.1mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 2.5 kg
per box of 100; Price: $80 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.02 kg

.480 Ruger

Notes:This round was originally designed to be chambered in a special 50th-anniversary
Ruger Super Redhawk to bear Bill Ruger’s name.The round itself was an experiment and not intended to break any power
records – it basically falls between the .44 Magnum and .454 Casull in terms of
power.It was more intended to
offer a power increase over the .44 Magnum, but without the recoil increase of
the .454 Casull.The case is a
cut-down and modified .45-70 round.

Twilight 2000
Notes: This round does not exist.

Nominal Size:
12x32mm

Actual Size:
12.07x32.64mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 37.38 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $600 per case

Magazine:

Per round: 0.03 kg

.500 Linebaugh

Notes: This was
another result of John Linebaugh’s search for the most powerful handgun
cartridge possible.It is based on
the .348 Winchester case, cut down and necked up to .50 caliber.It was originally designed to be fired from a modified Ruger Bisley
revolver, but has since been chambered in other revolvers.The .500 Linebaugh is so powerful that it can even take down African game
with the proper revolver (and if you can get close enough).It will kill most North American animals straight away.Handloading this round can be a problem due to the dearth of .348
Winchester cartridges.

Nominal Size:
13x36mm

Actual Size:
12.95x35.81mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 4.72 kg
per box of 100; Price: $150 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.038 kg

.500 Maximum

Notes: John
Taffin says that with the .500 Maximum, cartridge manufacturers have indeed come
up with the biggest and most powerful (and legal) cartridge available for a
handgun.The .500 Maxiumum, as one
of its alternate names would indicate, a stretched and strengthened version of
the .500 Linebaugh (already a powerful cartridge).The power and recoil is, to say the least, heavy, and assuming you can
get close enough, the round could easily take down even huge game like an
Elephant (or obliterate a human head…).The .500 Maxium is largely handloaded, though manufactured cartridges are
available in small lots.Cases are
generally re-formed .348 Winchester rifle rounds, though Ben Forkin also makes
fully formed brass suitable for the .500 Maximum, and the heavier bullets
useable in the .500 Linebaugh will work in the .500 Maximum.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .500 Maximum is not available in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Other Names:
.500 Linebaugh Long

Nominal Size:
13x41mm

Actual Size: 12.95x40.89mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 4.74 kg
per box of 100; Price: $$172 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.043 kg

.500 Smith &
Wesson Magnum

Notes: Developed
by Cor-Bon for Smith & Wesson, the .500 Smith & Wesson was introduced along with
its Model 500 X-Frame revolver in 2003.The round is perhaps the most powerful handgun round in the world today,
though newer loads such as the .500 Wyoming Express have also been given that
title.The .500 Smith & Wesson
makes a .44 Magnum round look like a pipsqueak by comparison; it’s a massive
round over 2 inches long with a round over a half an inch in diameter, and very
thick cartridge walls.Handguns
designed for the .500 Smith & Wesson are usually equipped with rather large
muzzle brakes to help tame the massive recoil, and are usually built on massive
frames (Smith & Wesson used it’s X-Frame, which is otherwise used only by the
Smith & Wesson 460XVR).More
recently, some manufacturers have been making carbines and rifles chambered for
.500 Smith & Wesson.

Notes: Shooters
really liked the new .500 handguns chambering the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum
cartridge, and they wanted to keep the power of that round – but for many
shooters, even experienced ones, repeated shooting of the .500 Smith & Wesson
Magnum, to attain and keep proficiency with the revolver, was a bit
overwhelming, and the real-life cost of the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum round is
also an issue.Smith & Wesson kept
getting requests for a less powerful version of the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum,
and some handloaders were actually making them.In 2004, Smith & Wesson asked Cor-Bon to design such a round, which they
called (in the usual pattern) the .500 Smith & Wesson Special.It is essentially the same bullet(s) as found in a .500 Smith & Wesson
Magnum, but put into a shorter case and using less propellant.Unlike the .38 Special and .44 Special, though, the .500 Special came
after the .500 Magnum instead the
.500 Magnum being developed from it.The result is a .500 round which has power similar to the .357 Magnum –
much easier on the shooter.Smith &
Wesson and some other manufacturers have hinted that they may develop some
revolver designed only for the .500 Special round (and not the capable of firing
the .500 Magnum), but none have confirmed this as of yet.

Twilight 2000
Notes: the .500 Smith & Wesson Special round does not exist in the Twilight 2000
timeline.

Other Names:
.500 Special

Nominal Size:
13x37mm

Actual Size:
12.7x37.11mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 47 kg
per case of 1000; Price: $750 per case

Magazines:

Per round: 0.038 kg

.500 Wyoming
Express

Notes: Not to be
outdone in the power department by the .500 Smith & Wesson Magnum, the .500
Wyoming Express was designed by the armorers at Freedom Arms specifically for
its Model 83 revolver.The
cartridge features thick walls and is belted to make sure headspacing is correct
in the Model 83 revolver.The .500
Wyoming Express was designed on a computer in order to get the optimum
combination of powder capacity, case volume, bullet weight, and pressure
capability – and then it was tweaked further through testing.Freedom Arms does not recommend hotloading or reduced loadings, as these
can damage the revolver firing the round.It also does not recommend loading the .500 Wyoming Express with
excessively light or heavy bullets, as the same can result.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .500 Wyoming Express does not exist in the Twilight 2000 timeline.

Other Names:
.500 WE

Nominal Size:12.7x35mm

Actual Size:
12.7x34.8mm

Case Type:
Straight

Weight: 3.88 kg
per box of 100; Price: $141 per box

Magazines:

Per round: 0.035 kg

.510 GNR

Notes: The .510
GNR round was designed in 2007 as a participant in the never-ending competition
for the biggest, baddest handgun and cartridge.Though it is not a physically huge round, it has great power due to the
heavy bullet it uses and the sheer amount of propellant it is loaded with, as
well as its huge caliber.It was
designed by Gary Reeder, the famed firearms expert and designer (GNR = Gary N.
Reeder). The caliber is so big, for example, that it is illegal in California
and some other jurisdictions in both the US and some other countries that
otherwise allow for powerful rounds. (A bit of an overreaction in my book – I
don’t think the average person needs to own a cannon, but even an above-average
crook isn’t going to be using something like a Reeder 510 Hunter either.)As with most such rounds, its best use is in handgun hunting, and the
.510 GNR is quite adept at that – even a short-barreled Reeder 510 Hunter can
bring down medium game, and a longer-barreled one can take down large game like
charging bears.So far, the only
weapon chambered for the .510 GNR is the Reeder 510 Hunter, and only Reeder
makes the ammunition.

Twilight 2000
Notes: The .510 GNR is not available in the Twilight 2000 timeline.